Washington, D.C.– Today, the League of Conservation Voters in partnership with its state affiliates in the Conservation Voters Movement launched a $4 million multifaceted campaign to educate the public on the impact the Big Ugly Bill will have on their household costs and communities. This campaign comes following the Congressional Republicans passing the Big Ugly Bill, which will raise costs for families across the board, while cutting taxes for the ultra wealthy. The campaign will run in more than 30 states across the nation, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The campaign tactics include rallies, town halls, phone banks, digital ads, partnering with local officials and content creators, canvassing and tabling, and on the ground field operations. The field program will run in more than fifteen states and will include high-traffic canvassing and visibility events that elevate how the Big Ugly Bill increases costs for families and communities, jeopardizes hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs, and puts peoples’ health and safety at risk. This campaign builds upon the $1.3 million digital and cable TV ad program the League of Conservation Voters launched in partnership with House Majority Forward and Climate Power across 11 Congressional Districts in July, focusing on Members of Congress who voted for the Big Ugly Bill. 

“People deserve to know why their energy bills and groceries are going up,” said Sara Schreiber, Senior Vice President of Campaigns at the League of Conservation Voters. “Congressional Republicans who voted for the Big Ugly Bill have broken their promise to lower costs and have instead given tax breaks to the ultra wealthy and sided with Big Oil, polluters and other special interests. We cannot afford Republicans’ raising our costs and eliminating good-paying jobs when we should be investing in affordable and sustainable options like clean energy that lower costs for families and create jobs in this country.”

By supporting this billionaire tax scam, Congressional Republicans have voted to increase utility bills by as much as $400 a year, eliminate hundreds of thousands of family-sustaining clean energy jobs that are disproportionately available to their own constituents, poison our air and water, and open up millions of acres of public lands to drilling, logging, and mining.

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